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| News Comments > DOOM Demo Extended |
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Re: DOOM Demo Extended |
Jun 22, 2016, 03:44 |
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Spektr wrote on Jun 21, 2016, 12:58:
Jee back in the days a demo wasn't time limited. I half expected this from the start, it's just a marketing trick: first to get people to talk about the game, the demo and the time limit; then to talk about the game, the demo and the time extension. Looks like it worked. 
They might even "change their mind" again and leave the demo available indefinitely -- like it should be. |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Out of the Blue |
May 28, 2016, 03:40 |
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RedEye9 wrote on May 27, 2016, 15:30:
Thirdeded!
Fran's is a Saint. My sister isn't named Fran, but she's one of my favorite persons indeed. 
For the technically-inclined, Apache was brought down by this issue, but figuring that out took longer than the fix (an Apache restart).
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Out of the Blue |
Mar 26, 2016, 16:06 |
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Genesys wrote on Mar 26, 2016, 12:10:
It looks like Amazon's got a problem with their Associate links. The iframes get loaded securely with src="//rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com/..." urls, which inherit the "https" prefix if the originating site used it. Unfortunately, the served content has hardcoded http:// links to the clickable images, and that triggers the warning. Yes, that is a known problem already mentioned by Blue.
Genesys wrote on Mar 26, 2016, 12:20:
Blue, check this link out: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3890003/amazon-widget-and-ssl . It looks like adding "&internal=1" to your iframe request will make those images get fetched over https. Ah, excellent find, that worked for our Amazon links too, despite the different hostnames. Thanks!
Now Chrome and https://www.whynopadlock.com/ consider the site completely okay. But Firefox and IE11 are more strict, and still display mixed-content warnings due to the switchadhub.com ads which have the same problem with their tracking pixels. |
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| News Comments > XCOM 2 Invades |
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Re: XCOM 2 Invades |
Feb 6, 2016, 03:36 |
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Those who made a (possibly reasonable) comment but were stupid enough to not edit out the warez link, got their whole posts deleted.
Please respect the Forum Rules. Thanks. |
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| General Discussion > BN display on mobile |
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No subject |
Aug 22, 2015, 04:08 |
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Rhialto wrote on Nov 11, 2014, 08:31:
Maybe they should think of a m.bluesnews.com? That exists, but is an alias for wap.bluesnews.com, which dates back to the pre-smartphone era.
Rhialto wrote on Nov 13, 2014, 08:20:
I don't know how many you are behind the scene... Had you taken a look at the Credits page, you'd know it's essentially one, Blue. 
eRe4s3r wrote on Nov 28, 2014, 14:06:
You need to make that a bluesnews related news post then Done. But the number of months between this thread and that post is indication of the glacial pace at which this moves.
Rhialto wrote on Aug 21, 2015, 21:45:
Should take less than a minute to fix, no? Obviously not, unless you can point out exactly how? |
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| News Comments > Into the Black |
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Re: Into the Black |
Aug 21, 2015, 12:22 |
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nin wrote on Aug 21, 2015, 08:45:
What does the player get out of that? Sounds boring. There's no challenge in racing it, true, so I guess there's no replayability either, but one can certainly be impressed by and feel some admiration for the cleverness of complex and lengthy PF tracks, such as the one Blue linked.
Then again, as they say in racing (and many other areas), YMMV. |
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| News Comments > Into the Black |
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Re: Into the Black |
Aug 21, 2015, 08:29 |
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jdreyer wrote on Aug 21, 2015, 04:37:
So, you're really not steering at all, but do you have to do anything with the throttle to make sure you hit the jumps at the right speed? Nope, just keep Pressing Forward, hence such tracks are typically marked PF. |
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| News Comments > Into the Black |
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Re: Into the Black |
Aug 21, 2015, 03:48 |
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The player doesn't have to: it's a PF or Press Forward track. That's a particular style of TrackMania track building where all the effort is made by the builder to define you path you drive/fly. The player just has to keep pressing Forward, the slightest steering action will throw you off that path, and usually crash.
In other words, such tracks (there are thousands but not often this long) are showcases for the builder's skill, not the player's.  |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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R.I.P. Ty Halderman |
Aug 17, 2015, 12:15 |
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On behalf of the gamers.org crew, I offer our deepest condolences to Ty's family. The sad news we feared to receive since Ty became unable to maintain the idgames archive has arrived, and comes as a blow nonetheless.
When I had to relinquish idgames maintenance, it was a relief to do so to such a capable community member as Ty. I remain very grateful for how he kept up this often rewarding but sometimes thankless "job", and over the past 18 years it was always a pleasure to support him with archive maintenance and system administration stuff. He impressed with his no-nonsense, independent stance towards all fruits of the DOOM community, his fairness and, above all, his humor.
My regret is that we were never able to meet in person. My hope is that the many messages of sympathy and support in the DoomWorld forum provide some small measure of consolation to Ty's family.
His legacy lives on in the idgames archive.
This comment was edited on Aug 17, 2015, 12:43. |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Out of the Blue |
Feb 19, 2014, 17:10 |
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nin wrote on Feb 19, 2014, 15:11:
Fibrocyte wrote on Feb 19, 2014, 14:59:
Blue: You should've taken advantage of the downtime to implement a mobile version of this page. Yeah, I'm sure he had nothing else going on.
Riiight.
Still, there already are some (primitive, perhaps, but it never was a priority) non-desktop feeds:
http://www.bluesnews.com/a/4/feeds-services |
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| News Comments > Into the Black |
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Re: Into the Black |
Feb 19, 2014, 05:20 |
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shul wrote on Feb 19, 2014, 02:48:
Is it just me or is the site working faster Just you. Only the drives were replaced.
shul wrote on Feb 19, 2014, 02:48:
btw, is Frans getting anything for this work? Kudos from Blue and you lot, which I appreciate. And satisfaction from completing the job. 
shul wrote on Feb 19, 2014, 02:48:
Something I always wondered about is, how many people are in the bluesnews team? Read around on the site some more, and you should have found: http://www.bluesnews.com/a/2/site-credits |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Out of the Blue |
Feb 18, 2014, 18:27 |
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Cutter wrote on Feb 18, 2014, 18:14:
Welp hopefully this'll take care of all those mini-outages as well. Well, we'll have to see about that, but if they do reoccur I finally have a new idea to try for a remedy.
Cutter wrote on Feb 18, 2014, 18:14:
Good job as per usual Frans! Thanks. |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Out of the Blue |
Feb 18, 2014, 18:14 |
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nin wrote on Feb 18, 2014, 18:04:
edit: Bonus points for saving my post count! Duh, it's called a database restore. |
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| News Comments > Ships Ahoy - TrackMania2: Valley |
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Re: Ships Ahoy - TrackMania2: Valley |
Jul 5, 2013, 13:59 |
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xXBatmanXx wrote on Jul 5, 2013, 11:06:
Is there still a BN trackmania server from unlimited or whatever it was? had a blast with that even though I suck.... No, I shut it down last year for several reasons, lack of player attendance being a major one. |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Out of the Blue |
Jun 18, 2013, 16:03 |
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Frans wrote on Jun 17, 2013, 17:48:
Jim wrote on Jun 17, 2013, 16:49:
Twitter shut down their old API last Monday. They're forcing everyone to update to API v1.1, which is what I spent a good amount of time 2 weeks ago working on to update our projects. I read some time ago they were planning that switch, but haven't kept up since then. When Blue mentioned the feed outage, I remembered again, so I'll have a look at updating to the new API. API switch completed, the Twitter feed will be catching up over the next few hours (one post per minute, except for the bulleted lists). |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Out of the Blue |
Jun 17, 2013, 17:48 |
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Jim wrote on Jun 17, 2013, 16:49:
Twitter shut down their old API last Monday. They're forcing everyone to update to API v1.1, which is what I spent a good amount of time 2 weeks ago working on to update our projects. I read some time ago they were planning that switch, but haven't kept up since then. When Blue mentioned the feed outage, I remembered again, so I'll have a look at updating to the new API. |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Out of the Blue |
Mar 17, 2013, 14:45 |
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We know the site hiccups are caused by MySQL locking up, which in turn causes all Apache processes to eventually get tied up, waiting for queries to complete, and making the site unresponsive.
I've spent many an hour trying to figure out why MySQL locks up, obviously without success, so in recent months Blue and I simply resorted to restarting Apache & MySQL. Because we aren't always around, some outages last up to several hours. Sorry about that. 
I suspect the problem is in the forums code, as that's the only code that has actual LOCK statements (when storing a new post and updating thread counters), but I don't have enough real MySQL wizardry under my belt to understand why this can run flawlessly for days or even several weeks, and then cause multiple lockups on some days again, like this weekend.
So there you have an update. |
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